Just four days after Iran proudly announced it had successfully launched a monkey into space – a move seen as proof of a technological breakthrough which may help the Islamic Republic advance its nuclear program, London’s Times newspaper is questioning the Iranian claims.

The British paper said Friday that two different photographs of the monkey allegedly sent to space raise suspicion that the launch never happened at all or that the original monkey died during the flight and the Iranians introduced a different monkey to announce their triumph….

[…] Le*gal In*sur*rec*tion asks of Iran’s space launch of a monkey was faked. Your Editor wonders why, if the Iranians wanted to launch a chimpanzee into space, they didn’t use Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? […]